IntroductionThe business continuity plan outlines the processes required to ensure the continuance of business during and after a disaster. The idea is not just to be able to continue business uninterrupted. But to also reestablish the full functions of the business as quickly as possible. Huffman Trucking Strategic Outline

Huffman Stakeholders: Everyone affected by the activities of its business. Main Stakeholders: shareholders, management, employee’s, customers, auto parts suppliers, major manufacturers of plastic goods, banks, government, and trade unions, Other Stakeholders: pressure groups, highway drivers, and communities in which Huffman travels and operates their terminals. Mission Statement: "Since 1936 Huffman's professional drivers have been delivering more than just on-time freight. Huffman delivers top quality service, safely and efficiently every mile of the way, to the community of the United States of America." Vision Statement: "Huffman envisions being the first choice of company's of America when they look for transportation of freight. In three years Huffman will be the number one freight carrier of the United States government. Proving longevity and efficiency will always be in high demand." Outline

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HuffmanTrucking and the Modern Maintenance Database
HuffmanTruckingHuffmanTrucking is a virtual organization that was founded in 1936 by K. Huffman with a single truck and a trailer. The company grew during World War 2 and forged a relationship with the United States government hauling cargo for them and continues to do so today. They have a substantially larger fleet of trucks and trailers today than when the company was started in 1936. They have grown to 800 tractors (trucks) and 2,100 trailers as well as 260 units of what they call “roll on, roll off” trailers that enable them to move cargo and vehicles for customers across the country and has four facilities spread throughout the United States to service these customers. They state that “every piece of rolling equipment undergoes preventative maintenance every 25,000 miles in their central office’s maintenance facility located in Cleveland, Ohio (Apollo Group, 2003, 2004, 2012)”. In order to keep track of the maintenance schedules of the more than 3,000 units of “rolling equipment” the HuffmanTrucking company utilizes a SQL database.
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...HuffmanTrucking
James Roswell
University of Phoenix
BSA/310
Instructor: Eric Wilson
November 11, 2010
Introduction
HuffmanTrucking Company was created in 1936 with a single tractor-trailer. There growth is due to World War II and the U.S. Governments demand for carrier services for factories in the Midwest to ports on the East Coast. In 1945, there growth increased to 36 trailers and 16 tractors. There growth is due to internal sales with the acquiring of five Eastern regional carriers. This has allowed them to continue to be privately held. There business processes and organizational structure uses the transaction processing system (TPS). The transaction processing system collects and stores, retrieves, and modifies all data transactions. A transaction processing system supports the collection, monitoring, storage, and processing of business transactions and also provides the input data for other information systems in the organization. Transaction processing means to quickly process transactions and data. That process supports the core operations which lower the risks of transaction mistakes and allows for reliable processing of transactions. This paper covers the current system in use and will make suggestions on other systems that could be used to improve the overall business process at HuffmanTrucking....

...will meet, work, and adequate technology support (Marchewka, 2006).
In order to determine if this project meets the planned objectives the project manager must quantify the measurable performance expectations of the plan. The performance expectations of SAP as an enterprise resource planning (ERP) system that will make use of a relational database technology to store all the information pertaining maintenance records of all trucks at each different location. This system will also deliver powerful capabilities to generate reports via the use of a web interface. System owners will use the following objectives as metrics for the delivery of the technological solution to address regulative issues, cost for the overall maintenance at HuffmanTrucking. The objectives for this project are:
1. Deliver a paperless system that will allow for data entry and scanning via a web client interface.
2. Eliminate multiple data entry points by using a single relational database that will centralize information.
3. Provide real-time access to data regarding maintenance of trucks at all locations.
4. Create unique records for reference each truck based on ID numbers (license plates).
5. Improve quality and accuracy of reporting to comply with all regulations.
6. Implementation cost is estimated to be $100,000 USD.
7. Improve efficiency of employees by eliminating manual processes.
8. Implementation timeframe should be one year.
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...Running head: PROBLEM SOLUTION: HUFFMANTRUCKING
Problem Solution: HuffmanTrucking
Nowadays, companies should decide to always manifest effective customer-centricity philosophy, building a strong internal marketing culture and enhancing the market’s influence on other entities throughout their organization. This will set the stage to inform them of how and when the time is right to make the necessary changes for the survival and growth of the business. HuffmanTrucking is a trucking company in the services industry, which has been experiencing diminishing growth over the past years. The organization needs to improve its overall position in the industry. Huffman’s CEO, Phil Huffman, has determined that a customer-centric strategy is what his organization needs to improve growth and achieve the top position within the trucking industry. In order to ensure Phil’s strategy is successful a proper evaluation must be done to determine the organizations’ current marketing strategy and in addition determine the sustainability of the proposed strategy and the overall benefit to the organization.
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Issue and Opportunity Identification
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...HuffmanTrucking Infrastructure Assessment
HuffmanTrucking is first major freight carrier that has managed to grow tremendously over the past few years (HuffmanTrucking, 2008). The company has 925 drivers, 425 support personnel, 800 road tractors, and 2100 trailers. The organization offers various customers base and distribution capacity. The mission of HuffmanTrucking is to increase the profit and become a growing, and adaptable company. HuffmanTrucking plans to leverage the automated information system, and technology to provide better customer service and business performance.
Information System Infrastructure
HuffmanTrucking is a major transportation company that has four facilities around the country. The organization anticipated that knowledge worker information systems infrastructure requires improvement and to solve this problem, organization implemented enterprise resource planning (ERP) system. The infrastructure of HuffmanTrucking is as follows:
Networks
The corporate office of HuffmanTrucking is in Cleveland, Ohio. The organization uses Avaya Digital Phone System at Ohio and Missouri locations, and private branch exchange (PBX) and plain old telephone system (POTS) at New Jersey and California locations. The organization...

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History of HuffmanTrucking
K. Huffman founded HuffmanTrucking in Cleveland Ohio in 1936 with just a single truck and trailer. A decade later the demand for transportation from the Midwest to the East Coast increased significantly, and HuffmanTrucking grew to 16 trucks and 36 trailers. Over the past 70 years, HuffmanTrucking has grown from a small office in Cleveland Ohio into a two story corporate headquarters in Cleveland and transportation facilities in Los Angeles, CA, St. Louis, MO, and Bayonne, NJ. HuffmanTrucking currently employs over one thousand employees, and has more than three thousand pieces of transportation equipment.
Huffman Trucking’s mission statement “to be a profitable, growing, adaptive company in an intensively competitive logistical services business environment” (Huffman) has allowed the company to prosper while other logistic companies have struggled with the cost of staying competitive. Although Huffman was recognized by the trucking industry as the first large transporter to outsource all information system needs, the company decided in 2004, to begin a new chapter in an old company. The Bayonne, NJ facility has become the location of...

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The corporate main office is in Ohio. The office at this location uses Avaya Digital Phone System and is connected to a Cisco 10 MB Hub. All equipments in this location get access to the Avaya Digital Phone System through the 10 MB Hub. The plant at the Ohio location has set up different workstations; each workstation has a wireless bar code, scanner, shipper, and telephone.
The office in California is currently using Private Branch eXchange System PBX system as communication system, routing incoming calls to the appropriate extension in the office. The California office uses The Plain Old Telephone Service POTS, with and intercom. The current POTS does not have caller ID nor does Voice Mail. All the connection phones in California’s office are connected to the PBX. The plant in California uses a different phone system than the California office. The California Plant uses the Nortel Digital Phone System. The phone system is Voice-over-IP, which is VOIP; basically this phone system is connected to an Ethernet connection.
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